White Planet

Movies like this do build awareness but sadly to say no one here has the courage to spell out the reality of documentaries on the Arctic North. Political interest on the vanishing wildness type pictures has never been a popular subject especially when legislators are busy just classifying what nature there is to exploit. If it's oil, it means that a pipeline from the McKenzie delta is more important than indigenous indians living at the river delta and much more important than which way caribou migrate. If ice is melting faster than it is reformed, no amount of cinema celluloid is going to keep penguin numbers from dwindling.
In recent years more attention has gone more on preventing polar bears from reaching inhabited areas in the north than preserving the white bear's population. Seal pups on ice floes grab more attention for their fur and for their survival But I can still pretend that nothing is happening that far north, can't I? And who really cares about the two or three degrees warming over James Bay and the consequent premature vanishing snow cover on the way to Ungava. The mine industry might refer to the melt as an excuse to better road development in the region and so it goes, exploitation versus survival played out year after year as arctic species disappear.
But the images are lovely, some people may think twice about about depleting the wildlife there. We can all pretend that all is well, so far away from city life, that films on the morth are going to solve the artic dilemma by itself.